Votes cast for Fairfield candidate no longer on ballot?

9:55 AM,
Nov. 5, 2013

Written by

Sue Kiesewetter
Enquirer contributor

- Up to 38 early morning voters in this city's Second Ward may have cast votes for a candidate who was no longer on the ballot.

Planning commissioner and former Second Ward councilman Don Hassler, who had filed to run as an at-large councilman, withdrew from the race - but it was too late to remove his name from the ballot.

Election officials were supposed to have put up disclaimers on the voting machines, but that wasn't done at Fairfield Central Elementary School, where residents of four precincts vote, said Lynn Kinkaid, director of the Butler County Board of Elections. ...